Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈfæləʊ/
Pronunciation notes
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/ˈfæloʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
Usage- Uncountable
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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray; Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
Uncultivated land.
Usage- Uncountable
The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
Usage- Countable
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By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
Adjective
Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Usage- of agricultural land
Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
Usage- of agricultural land
Inactive; undeveloped.
Usage- Figurative
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a fallow period in one's career
After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.
Verb
To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
Usage- Transitive
Adjective
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
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a fallow deer or greyhound
How does your fallow greyhound, sir?
Adjective
left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
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fallow farmland
undeveloped but potentially useful
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a fallow gold market
Noun
cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons